Epinephrine, aka Adrenaline

Adrenaline is amazing.  We have all heard stories of "super-human" strength due to a surge of adrenaline during a stressful situation.  

• In 1982, a mother lifted a 1964 Chevy Impala off her teenaged son, after it fell off the jacks and pinned him underneath.  
• In 2006, in Quebec, a mother tackled and wrestled a polar bear that was coming after her son and fought it while her son and his friend ran for help.  
• Marie Payton, a grandmother in Texas, tossed a riding lawnmower off her granddaughter who had been knocked down and was underneath the still-running machine. 

And, the most recent incident:

• In 2011, Kate O'Neal carried a one-woman show, for a staggering 90 minutes (at least 20 excruciating minutes longer than was thought humanly possible or recommended) without passing out, wetting herself, or running screaming out of the theatre.  She remembers very little of the show, however.  The surge of adrenaline distorted both perception and time and 4 out of 5 of the human senses.  Anyone with reports of the incident, please contact Kate and offer details of the event so it can be documented for the record.